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Wisconsin and the Shaping of American Law
About this book
State laws affect nearly every aspect of our daily livesâour safety, personal relationships, and business dealingsâbut receive less scholarly attention than federal laws and courts. Joseph A. Ranney looks at how state laws have evolved and shaped American history, through the lens of the historically influential state of Wisconsin.
Organized around periods of social need and turmoil, the book considers the role of states as legal laboratories in establishing American authority west of the Appalachians, in both implementing and limiting Jacksonian reforms and in navigating legal crises before and during the Civil Warâincluding Wisconsin's invocation of sovereignty to defy federal fugitive slave laws. Ranney also surveys judicial revolts, the reforms of the Progressive era, and legislative responses to struggles for civil rights by immigrants, women, Native Americans, and minorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since the 1960s, battles have been fought at the state level over such issues as school vouchers, voting, and abortion rights.
Organized around periods of social need and turmoil, the book considers the role of states as legal laboratories in establishing American authority west of the Appalachians, in both implementing and limiting Jacksonian reforms and in navigating legal crises before and during the Civil Warâincluding Wisconsin's invocation of sovereignty to defy federal fugitive slave laws. Ranney also surveys judicial revolts, the reforms of the Progressive era, and legislative responses to struggles for civil rights by immigrants, women, Native Americans, and minorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since the 1960s, battles have been fought at the state level over such issues as school vouchers, voting, and abortion rights.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Law That Came Before
- 2. Law on the Frontier
- 3. A Jacksonian Jurisprudence
- 4. Ropes of Sand: Slavery and State Rights
- 5. Imperia in Imperiis: Striking a Balance of Power in the Industrial Age
- 6. âAbsolute Common Groundâ: Accommodating Diversity in a Growing State and Nation
- 7. Crying Out for Manâs Hand: Law and Nature in an Instrumentalist Age
- 8. Breaking the Procrustean Bed: The Progressive Era
- 9. Great Public Needs: The New Deal and the Rise of Labor
- 10. âEqual in All Other Respectsâ: Accommodating Diversity in the Twentieth Century
- 11. Better Right than Quick: Nationalizing Trends in State Law, 1940â1980
- 12. Law in the Age of Individualism
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index